| VICECHAIR | Deputy to the person in charge at assemblies (4-5) |
| TREASURER | The person in charge of the money |
| CHIEFOFSTAFF | Principal adviser to the person in charge of a large organisation (5,2,5) |
| NUMBERONE | Hit the person in charge of an organisation (6,3) |
| HEIDBILLYDACKUS | Name given to the person in charge (4-11) |
| APIARIST | A doddery pair is heading to the person in charge of social workers (8) |
| CHARACTER | It's the nature of the person in the book (9) |
| ADHOMINEM | Of an attack, directed against a person rather than their argument; Latin, 'to the person' (2,7) |
| ABHORRENT | Hateful injury to the person, or tear |
| ITDEPENDS | Expresses uncertainty, referring to technology used by deputy to meet objectives |
| PALTRIEST | Religious professional holds a deputy to be of poorest quality (9) |
| QUEUETIPS | "Stand behind the person in front of you" and "Don't cut"? |
| LIFELIKE | It's very similar to the person in biography and made-up stuff about Boltzmann Constant (8) |
| ANGELO | Deputy to the duke in the Shakespeare play Measure for Measure (6) |
| SECONDMATE | A deputy to the first officer on a merchant ship (6,4) |
| COXSWAIN | The person in charge of steering a rowing shell and coordinating the rhythm of the crew; or, helmsman/ woman or skipper of a lifeboat (8) |
| HEADHONCHO | Taken from the Japanese word for "team leader" what expression means "the person in charge"? (4,6) |
| CHEFDEMISSION | The person in charge of a sporting team at a large international event (4,2,7) |
| EULER | Maths expert's the person in charge when Head of English stands in for absent cover (5) |
| BOSS | Is this the person in charge of a German fashion firm, Hugo? (4) |
